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Love is

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1 Corinthians 13:4-11 New International Version (NIV)   Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.  But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.  When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. The concept of love has been corrupted since the first rebellion.   Genesis 3:1-5 New International Version (NIV) Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord

Mount Zion

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Those who have an abundance

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Mark 10:25 "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." Christ took this occasion to speak to his disciples about the difficulty of the salvation of those who have abundance of this world.  Those who thus eagerly seek the wealth of the world, will never rightly prize Christ and his grace.  Also, as to the greatness of the salvation of those who have but little of this world, and leave it for Christ.  The greatest trial of a good man's constancy is, when love to Jesus calls him to give up love to friends and relatives.  Even when gainers by Christ, let them still expect to suffer for him, till they enter the kingdom of God.  Let us learn contentment in a low state, and to watch against the love of riches in a high one.  Let us pray to be enabled to part with all, if required, in Christ's service, and to use all we are allowed to keep in his service.

A divided house cannot stand

Mark 3:25 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. It was plain that the doctrine of Christ had a direct tendency to break the devil's power; and it was as plain, that casting of him out of the bodies of people, confirmed that doctrine; therefore Satan could not support such a design.  Christ gave an awful warning against speaking such dangerous words. It is true the gospel promises, because Christ has purchased, forgiveness for the greatest sins and sinners; but by this sin, they would oppose the gifts of the Holy Ghost after Christ's ascension.  Such is the enmity of the heart, that unconverted men pretend believers are doing Satan's work, when sinners are brought to repentance and newness of life.

Stormy Days

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Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them.

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Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them.  Rather,  bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord. The great duty of children is, to obey their parents.  That obedience includes inward reverence, as well as outward acts, and in every age prosperity has attended those distinguished for obedience to parents.  The duty of parents.  Be not impatient; use no unreasonable severities.  Deal prudently and wisely with children; convince their judgements and work upon their reason.  Bring them up well; under proper and compassionate correction; and in the knowledge of the duty God requires.  Often is this duty neglected, even among professors of the gospel.  Many set their children against religion; but this does not excuse the children's disobedience, though it may be awfully occasion it.  God alone can change the heart, yet he gives his blessing to the good lessons and examples of parents, and answers t